Complications of Soft Tissue Fillers

Abstract

Soft tissue augmentation with filling agents (temporary, permanent, and semipermanent) has become one of the most requested interventions in facial aesthetic surgery. Fillers provide an opportunity to quickly correct certain defects that cannot be adequately treated with other modalities. The demand for fillers has created a strong incentive for industry to introduce newer and better products. Consequently, a burgeoning market has developed with multiple fillers possessing many of the attributes of the so-called ideal filler: an agent which is biocompatible, nonantigenic, noninflammatory, nontoxic, stable after injection, nonmigratory, long-lasting, natural looking and feeling, and not too expensive.